Metaphor Quotes · Page 12

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

— James Russell Lowell

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

— Larry Dossey

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

— Anna Quindlen

“Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain”

— Zora Neale Hurston

The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history.

— William Rehnquist

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

— Bruce Mau

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

— F. L. Lucas

“Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.”

— Nenia Campbell

“Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain…

— Veronica Hollinger

“She felt about a love set as a painter does about his masterpiece; each ace serve was a form of brushwork to…

— Janet Flanner

I think that the superhero-as-metaphor involves a superhero being some sort of intellectual, emotional, or other such concept writ large. But I…

— Kurt Busiek

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical…

— Julian Jaynes

“Youth is like being carried through life by a strong current," Admiral Winter said. "All you feel is the speed of the…

— Andrea Cremer

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going…

— Serena Williams

“Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was…

— George Orwell

I've spoken often of how the fantasy genre is able to, with the greatest freedom among all the genres, take a metaphor…

— Steven Erikson

The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and…

— Rick DeMarinis

Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into…

— Jean de la Bruyere

For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise…

— Haruki Murakami

When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say…

— Milan Kundera

I found very early on when I became a hip-hop artist that I loved telling stories. Actually, when I was trying to…

— Ben Drew

“Values without action are like blueprints left rolled up in a dusty attic. This chapter is where you climb into your metaphorical…

— Ronen Dancziger

I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a…

— Sidney Lanier

Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason,…

— George Lakoff

“The suit gave him youth, strength, and hunger. It never promised he would remain himself.”

— Valon G

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.

— Steven Pressfield

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it…

— Dennis Potter

“Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.”

— Natasha Pulley

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

— Fernando Pessoa

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that…

— Ally Carter

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

— James Geary

I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

— Mother Teresa

The most colossal display of wise, inspiring, and humorous metaphors ever exhibited in one place.

— Richard Lederer

“The ocean turned feral. No longer a cradle, it grew claws and fangs.”

— Deni Ar Dente

This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

— Jane Hirshfield

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

— Jeff Smith

For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.

— Walter Benjamin

Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

— Robert Breault

I think that inevitably, the trouble our characters go through is a kind of metaphor for what's happening in ourselves.

— Alice Mattison